Brazil
POLITICAL PARTY
Partido Liberal (PL)
Liberal Party
in parliamentary seats
in parliamentary seats
Brazil
in parliamentary seats
Partido Liberal (PL) finished first in the 2022 Chamber of Deputies election, winning 99 of the available 513 seats (they won 33 seats in the previous election). PL also finished first of thirteen parties in the 2022 Senate elections, taking 8 of the 27 available seats and adding to their 6 sitting senators. Party leader Jair Bolsonaro ran in the 2022 presidential election, narrowly losing to the Workers’ Party candidate by a margin of 50.9% to 49.1%.
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June 10, 2025
“The scum of the earth is showing up in Brazil, as if we didn’t have enough problems of our own to sort out.”
Honorary party president (2023–present), former President of Brazil (2019–2023)
Jair Bolsonaro
MOST INFLUENTIAL PARTY MEMBER
Jair Bolsonaro
Jair Bolsonaro
Honorary party president (2023–present), former President of Brazil (2019–2023)
“The scum of the earth is showing up in Brazil, as if we didn’t have enough problems of our own to sort out.”
September 2015
Isac Nóbrega/PR, CC BY 2.0 , via Wikimedia Commons
PAGE CITATIONS:
Brazilian Chamber of Deputies, October 2, 2022, IFES Election Guide, last updated April 17, 2024, last updated August 2, 2023, accessed June 11, 2025, www.electionguide.org/elections/id/3762/.
Brazilian Federal Senate, October 2, 2022, IFES Election Guide, last updated April 17, 2024, last updated August 2, 2023, accessed June 11, 2025, www.electionguide.org/elections/id/3763/.
"Acting Senators | 57th Legislature (2023-2027)," Federal Senate, accessed June 11, 2025, www25.senado.leg.br/web/senadores/em-exercicio/-/e/por-partido, via Google Translate.
Sean Clarke, "Brazil election 2022: live results as Lula beats Bolsonaro to return as president," Guardian, October 30, 2022, www.theguardian.com/world/ng-interactive/2022/oct/30/brazil-election-2022-live-results-lula-bolsonaro-runoff.
Brazilian Federal Senate, October 2, 2022, IFES Election Guide, last updated April 17, 2024, last updated August 2, 2023, accessed June 11, 2025, www.electionguide.org/elections/id/3763/.
"Acting Senators | 57th Legislature (2023-2027)," Federal Senate, accessed June 11, 2025, www25.senado.leg.br/web/senadores/em-exercicio/-/e/por-partido, via Google Translate.
Sean Clarke, "Brazil election 2022: live results as Lula beats Bolsonaro to return as president," Guardian, October 30, 2022, www.theguardian.com/world/ng-interactive/2022/oct/30/brazil-election-2022-live-results-lula-bolsonaro-runoff.
QUOTE CITATION:
Jair Bolsonaro quoted in "Who is Jair Bolsonaro? Brazil's far-right president in his own words," Guardian, October 29, 2018, www.theguardian.com/world/2018/sep/06/jair-bolsonaro-brazil-tropical-trump-who-hankers-for-days-of-dictatorship.
TO CITE:
"Partido Liberal (PL)," Great Replacement Parties, ChainofIdeasBook.com, [access date], www.chainofideasbook.com/country/BR.
